by Jack Lee
What’s your guess, how many Americans favor a secure border? There’s a Gallup Poll out today that once again tells the true numbers and those numbers are fairly consistent with past numbers. So what would you say the numbers are, 50-50, 55-45?
The media has shaped our opinion to think that about 20% of those supporting secure borders are just racists and backwards rednecks and then you can throw in the old curmudgeons, the ultra nationalists, the ultra conservatives and maybe…just maybe, you got yourself 50% of America. Because on the other side the media has crafted this view that the rest of the nation, the other 50-55%, is more enlightened and therefore more in sympathy with illegal immigration. Those [brighter] folks believe America needs all the hard working people they can get, that the world should be without borders and healthcare and good wages are just human rights.
If you thought that, you would be wrong. Turns out that 93 percent of Americans want a secure border and managed immigration. They feel [illegal] immigration has overloaded our system and has bankrupted it some communities. They feel the trade off between tapping into an [illegal] manual labor force and the massive costs associated with it far outweigh the benefits to the average American. What’s your opinion?
When are your going to stop swallowing this claptrap whole? It’ll make you sick.
The poll results are at http://www.gallup.com, and you’ll find the numbers somewhat different from that 93% you have regurgitated.
This Just In (linked to on Drudge) —
Mexican troops cross into the United States at Bridge Two
http://www.pro8news.com/news/local/Mexican-troops-cross-into-the-United-States–124469714.html
If the federal government — here in the form of Customs and Border Protection — can’t even keep track of errant members of the Mexican military, who thinks for a minute they can track the activities of illegal immigrants or drug runners?
National sovereignty, security, and defense is meaningless in the absence of effective boarder control. As long as the fed has neither the will nor the ability (one is the consequence of the other) to secure US boarders, then we have a government so dysfunctional it cannot even provide the most basic mandate of its existence.
I do not think it at all a coincidence that our decades long US boarder non-control incompetence is in perfect harmony with the bizarre, utopian, feel-good fantasy goal of progressives for a boarderless global environment where they can blissfully commune as “world citizens”.
Progressives and their foolish ideas have penetrated, if not dominated, every aspect of government from the abject fiscal lunacy of The City Of Chico to the “transforming America” hogwash of the Obama administration.
You mean this old Gallup poll from 2010: A new USA Today/Gallup poll reveals that two-thirds of Americans want the federal government to do a better job of securing the border. Eighty-four percent of Americans worry that illegal immigration strains social services, and 77% believe that illegal aliens drive down wages.
Another 53% believed that the United States should focus on stopping illegal immigration over finding solutions to deal with the 11-18 million illegal aliens. Eighty percent believe that providing an amnesty to individuals in the country illegally will foster more illegal immigration.
The truth is Americans favor secure borders and legal entry into the country…they are against illegal border crossings. It’s interesting to note that this has been the case for a long time:
http://www.illegalaliens.us/polls.htm
Hispanic USA Research Group survey of Hispanic Americans, June 1993:
89% of Hispanic Americans strongly support an immediate moratorium on immigration.
74% feel fewer immigrants should be allowed and stronger restrictions should be enforced.
Wall Street Journal/NBC News, December 1998: 72% feel “immigration should not increase because it will cost U.S. jobs and increase unemployment.”
http://www.npg.org/immpoll.html
RoperASW poll 2003 Americans agree (85%) that illegal immigration is a serious problem, and over half (55%) say it is very serious.
http://www.endillegalimmigration.com/illegal_immigration_polls_surveys/index.shtml
Seventy-eight percent (78%) of likely voters were opposed to legalizing the status of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. with only 19% supporting it. 88% of African-Americans were opposed to legalization. Pulse Opinion Research, LLC, September, 2009
71% of Americans want to see the bosses who hire illegal immigrants arrested while 64 percent support police conducting surprise raids on businesses suspected of hiring illegal immigrants (The Raids Obama has stopped) Rasmussen Reports poll, October, 2009.
80 percent of U.S. voters oppose proposals for government-backed health-care plans for illegal immigrants Rasmussen Reports poll, June, 2009.
78 percent of Americans believe that high immigration numbers have had a negative impact on the cost and quality of the nation’s health care system and 78% of likely voters were opposed to legalizing the status of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. American Council for Immigration Reform, September, 2009
73% of Americans called for a drop in the number of illegal immigrants CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, October, 2009.
Re Libby’s: “When are your going to stop swallowing this claptrap whole? It’ll make you sick.
The poll results are at http://www.gallup.com, and you’ll find the numbers somewhat different from that 93% you have regurgitated.”
Speaking of vomit, it appears the always angry and hate filled Libby is one of the distinct minority that prefer an open boarder policy. Granted, she may be a member of that vomitous minority, but it is a powerful minority. If it were not we would not be having this conversation and Libby would not be idiotically attacking people who point out the need and desire for proper boarder security.
I can think of no stories in the MSM that describe this 50% perception.
Could you provide an example or two?
Media spin has also gone on for a lonng time against the will of the majority of Americans:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/2006/press20060828.asp
Media Research Center Aug 28, 2006
http://www.alipac.us/article5234.html
Americans for Legal Immigration June 24, 2011
It is impossible to give you one example here and expect to give you clarity when this article is a generality about media bias. For what you want you need to look at investigative sources with many examples. The MRC is a start and you should check it and if you need more come back. Thank you Tina for noting the MRC link.
I can think of no stories that describe this 50% perception… So you were not around when Bush was president? lol The media handled Bush completely different than Obama. If you can’t admit this you are being dishonest.
Recently when Obama joked about what we should do about the border he said maybe we should build a moat and fill it with alligators. The media gave him a pass on it, but it was a cutting remark about those people wanting more done. If that isn’t bias I don’t know what is. Had Bush said something flip about a hot button topic they would have burned him but good.
Why cant we just reopen Ellis Island on the east coast and three more on our north, south and west borders? Lets use the same or similar criteria that our ancestors were held to before being allowed to cross our borders. It worked back then, why not now? Welcome everyone with open arms who legally want to live here and abide by OUR laws.
Protect our borders from illegal immigration and terrorist by bringing all or the majority of our troops home who have been stationed in other countries since WWII ended over 70 years. Their GI Bill will help them buy a home helping our housing market. Their military pay will help our economy instead of the country they were stationed in. Our military is the largest educational system in the world, and that education is not being utilized to its full potential.
If the polls show the majority supports legal immigration, but not illegal immigration and we want our borders secure then its our own darn fault for not electing representatives that will do the will of the people they represent.
Side note: Remember Obama was in Puerto Rico recently fund raising and campaigning, and remember last year an attempt was brought before Congress to admit PR as a state and not just a protected territory? Follow the votes people and lots of them, plus two senators and a couple of House reps.
Attended the Frank Luntz lunch today at the Elks Lodge and hes predicting Obama will win a second term if Republicans dont get our act together and learn from what Obama did in 2008 and the Tea Party in 2010. Good news is, he believes we will take congrol of Congress by one seat in the Senate. Time to wake up, get up and get involved.
But nobody says there is a 93% … because there is no 93% … and there it is.
Next time (in my dreams) … don’t regurgitate the media claptrap … go to the source and see for yourself.
“Speaking of vomit, it appears the always angry and hate filled Libby is one of the distinct minority that prefer an open boarder policy.”
No, not “hateful” … just factual. The 93% was bogus. This is a fact … as borne out on http://www.gallup.com.
Now, if you find this “hateful”, I’m sorry … but that is something you will have to work out with your own damaged psyche. Facts are not “hateful”; they are just facts.
“The 93% was bogus. This is a fact … as borne out on http://www.gallup.com. Now, if you find this “hateful”, I’m sorry … but that is something you will have to work out with your own damaged psyche. Facts are not “hateful”; they are just facts.” Libby
Libby I don’t know what you are reading, but its not the Gallup poll. I re-checked the poll and 93% is the correct number.
You have been bashing us and bashing us and it was you who got it wrong, not us. Look, 53% — say the need for government action this year to halt the flow of illegal immigrants at the borders is “extremely important,” the first time a majority have held this view in the four times Gallup has asked this question since 2006. Another 29% call it “very important” and 12% “moderately important. Of course these were rounded off numbers, so it was probably more like 93 point something. Only 7% (again, this is a rounded number) felt it was not important. That adds up to 93% for border security – 7% against. There’s the 93%!!!! Holy cow Libby add the freakin numbers. We’ll be waiting for your apology.
You can’t go tweakin’ categories of responses, and then fiddle the numbers to suit yourself.
Say it means “THIS”, when it does no such thing!
Honestly!
The Emperor is naked! Naked!
Until you can see this, we have no common ground of objective reality upon which to base a discussion … which is really creepy.
Libby, we’re not tweakin anything, the numbers are correct. Between those who thought it was really important to those who thought it was kind of important the number was 93%. Sheesh…c’mon admit you were wrong for once.